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Initiales enluminées

De nombreux manuscrits médiévaux regorgent de lettres majuscules décorées de tous styles et de toutes tailles. Mais quel était leur but ? Lisez dans [**notre blog**](https://www.europeana.eu/blog/lighting-the-way-how-illuminated-initials-guided-medieval-readers-through-books) !

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E-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

Latin Bible, designed as a pandect (i.e. in one volume), following the recension of Alcuin of York. Several copies of these Alcuin Bibles, manufactured in the scriptorium of St. Martin of Tours, have survived; with their finely graded hierarchy of scripts…

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University of Edinburgh

Call Number - 0001439; Shelf Mark - Ms 42

University of Edinburgh

Call Number - 0003584; Shelf Mark - Ms 26

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